It's Getting Closer

So I have been struggling a bit with Weight Watchers recently. I am very much back on track but the weight doesn't seem to be shifting but I think it is because I am getting closer to reaching goal.

I went to weigh in last night and managed to lose 1lb which means I only have 7lbs to lose and I will be at GOAL. I am only half a stone away from being my dream weight which I never ever thought would happen.

I go to Turkey for 3 months in 5 weeks and 6 days (not that I am counting) and I would absolutely LOVE to have reached my target weight by then. It's going to be hard but I am going to give it a damn good try.

Massive Milestone!

I hit a MASSIVE milestone last week! I lost 2.5lbs at Weight Watchers which took me to a whopping 101lbs lost... I can't believe it!

I have been on Weight Watchers since October 2007 and never did I ever think I would lose anything close to 100lbs and now I have gone over it and I am still going strong.

Not only is this one massive milestone for me, but I also went shopping the other day with my mum and bought my first pair of size 12 jeans and they fit me!

Holiday clothes shopping for me! ;)

Back To It

I don't know why I haven't been keeping up to date with my blog because it really is the only thing that can help me get back on track properly.


A lot has happened since I last wrote. I have quit my job, got back on track with the diet and have become all domesticated.

I struggled to get back on the wagon after my holiday but I needed to do it because of going away on the 6th September. It has been hard, but I am getting there slowly but surely and gradually those lbs are coming off.

BBQ season, in theory, makes it a lot easier to diet, but for some reason, it's not for my family. The BBQ comes out and then so does the mountain of meat and onion rings. How many times would you normally have a sausage, pork steak, a few chicken nuggets and a couple of onion rings on your plate? Never. So why is it automatically acceptable to have this with a BBQ? I've had to work hard to only have one meat dish along with a big salad and only 2 onion rings each BBQ. I know it is worth it but it's really not fair!

Anyway, I'm back to doing to the blog and I am back to being on track.

Stop the Wagon, I'm Getting Back On!

So after 6 weeks off of Weight Watchers, including a weeks holiday to Turkey, i am ready and willing to get back on the wagon and sort out my body and eating habits again.

These past few weeks have been fun, as they always are, but all good things have to come to an end and having booked a very exciting travelling trip for 3 months time, i have to get back to the diet.

I am going to Turkey for 3 months on 6th September so i want to feel comfortable walking around in a bikini and to do that, i have to stop eating the white chocolate chip cookies that i have become so very fond of!

So here we are, 6 weeks later and 6lbs on, it is time to kick start my new eating habits into touch.

Easy Come... Not So Easy Go

So i am back from my holiday and what a time i had! As you know, i worked bloody hard on the run-up to this holiday. I became obsessed with Weight Watchers and managed to shift just over a stone in 2 months and went away being my lightest I've ever been and boy did it feel good.

Unfortunately, my good intentions didn't last and the minute i got to the airport, it was like a green light to eat and drink what i wanted but it was so much fun and well worth it.

The holiday was fantastic, i saw my friends, spent time with my amazing man and managed to get myself a pretty impressive tan in the process.

I started off relatively well with my eating and drinking but it soon fell by the wayside and i decided to just enjoy myself and deal with the consequences when i got back and boy were they some consequences. I managed to put on 7.5lbs in one week. How the hell? I am sure i literally only have to look at food and alcohol and the weight goes back on!

Oh well, not to worry. I am back to it now and will lose the weight i put on and also an extra stone to finally get to my goal. It's getting close now and i can't wait!

The time has FINALLY come!

The time has finally come for me to say 'ciao', 'adios', 'au revoir', GOODBYE!

After a long, hard, slog on Weight Watchers, managing to lose a stone in 2 months, i am FINALLY going on holiday and i feel great!

While i don't want to watch my weight and count my points while i am away, i don't think that i am not going to be able to, so i hope that the damage isn't too extreme when i come back.

See you all soon for when i need to hop back on my wagon.

Good Things Come in Threes!

After my disappointment of putting on 0.5lb at Weight Watchers last week even though i had been so good, i was dreading being weighed last night at my meeting. I shouldn't have got so worked up about it though because i had a fantastic result... i lost 3lbs!! This means that i have lost 92.5lbs in total and i am officially the lightest i have EVER been and i am also within a healthy BMI range which i have never been.

I set myself a target at the end of February when i got back from Turkey that i wanted to lose a stone in time for my next holiday. I knew that i was going to have to be focused and really strict with myself, especially as i had 3 birthdays within the month, including my own, as well as Easter, but i was prepared for the challenge. I have been been watching what i eat, tracking all my points and have upped the exercise massively. I did border on the obsessive which raised a few eyebrows but it was well worth it. I go on holiday next Tuesday and have reached my target of losing a stone with one week to go so if i can lose weight next Monday, it will be a massive bonus.

I really cant believe that i have managed to complete my mini challenge and i am SO proud of myself. I cant wait to get on holiday now and even though i am going with 2 skinny minnies, i know that i wont be as ashamed of myself as i usually am.

The Marathon of a Diet

I haven't had the chance to update my blog for a couple of weeks... i would love to have a proper reason but I'm fairly sure it is just down to my own pure laziness.

I'm going to have a bit of a moan in this update because i hit a sticky patch on the diet last week, not good and not fair.

So, I've still be excellent on the diet... eating all the right things and doing lots of exercise, including an hour of the Wii 3 times a week, however, i went to Paris last weekend to support my friends brother in the Paris Marathon.

I can not put into words how good i was throughout the WHOLE weekend. I took a sandwich with me for on the Eurostar so i didn't have to buy a calorific one on the train and i also took a bag of apples and a box of Special K bars so i could snack on them instead of chocolate. My friends were all eating take-aways and massive ice-creams that i would have literally died for but i still managed to use all my will power and not have any of it. I was so so proud of myself and quite happy to get on the scales when i got home. I wish i hadn't.

I got home on the Sunday, after giving up the chance to go for a drink and some dinner once back in London, and instead went straight home to bed because it was 10pm. I got up on the Monday and stressed all day about weight watchers and it turns out i was right. I had put on 0.5lb and i was absolutely gutted. For the first time since starting this diet, i actually cried because i had been so good in Paris, denied myself of the stuff that i REALLY wanted, did lots of exercise and stayed truly focused, yet i still put on weight. I was not a happy bunny.

Anyway, i decided to not let it get me down. I got straight back to it and have changed my eating habits a bit this week. I have varied my lunches and dinners and have actually eaten a bit more so i don't feel like i have starved myself as much. Ive eased up on the exercise as well, just walking 3 1/2 miles each night after work to the station and i only did half an hour swim on Saturday morning. I feel much better for it. I am not too worried about weigh in tonight, i really hope i have lost and i really want to lose 3lbs between now and next Tuesday so i still have another week so get a bit off so fingers crossed but i am not going to get so stressed about it if i haven't lost. What will be, will be.

If I've learnt anything from this week, it's to not get too bogged down with this dieting business. I am not happy that i cried over it but i suppose it just shows how important this is to me.

The ice-creams that i didn't have.

The Diet Friendly Birthday

I'm finding it increasingly shocking that i am still so focused and determined to do well on Weight Watchers at the moment.

As well as the every day temptations, i also have a Toffee Crisp, some Munchies, a little Mars egg and a Smarties egg at home all waiting to be eaten and i just don't want them. Don't get me wrong, i don't think i need to throw them away because i am sure there will come a time when i need to binge it because that's what i do, but right now, i am feeling good.

So, after my minor blip last week with all the alcohol, i still managed to lose 0.5lb at Weight Watchers last Monday. I know i should have been pleased, but i wasn't. I cant help but think that losing 0.5lb is just a tiny bit pointless. Anyway, instead of falling off the wagon, especially as it was my birthday on Saturday, i remained very good and ate well last week and didn't have any alcohol. I really varied all of my lunches and made sure that i stopped eating when i was full up when i was having my dinner. I also didn't deprive myself of anything and if i wanted a bit of chocolate, i had it, but in moderation.

Seeing as it was my birthday on Saturday, i knew that i was going to be eating quite a lot so i upped my exercise intake with the walking and even managed to get in a 10 minute run. Now this doesn't sound like a lot, but trust me, it was hard. I don't think i will be running a marathon any time soon!

So, on Friday i went out with my sister and my best friend for a pre-birthday dinner. I chose to go to a Toby Carvery because i knew it would be good on points and i would be able to fill myself up on the vegetables. I also had a lovely ice-cream with butterscotch sauce for pudding which was pretty amazing! On Saturday, (my actual birthday), i went shopping with my family so i did lots of walking and had soup for lunch. My mum had organised to take me to Frankie and Benny's as a surprise in the evening so i decided to have a tomato based pasta and managed to turn the garlic bread down. I had to have a pudding because they always sing on your birthday so i was very pleased to see mango sorbet on the menu! On the Sunday, we went out again for my birthday with all of my family. I had a roast dinner and then for pudding they had berries with frozen low fat yogurt on the menu... happy days for me. I had a great, food filled weekend, without ever going over my points. The best birthday ever!

I went to Weight Watchers last night and i was really hoping to lose 1lb so that i could get back down to my 6stone loss so guess how pleased i was when i found out i had lost 3.5lbs! I couldn't believe it. So that means that i have currently lost 6 stone and 2.5lbs. I still have 3.5lbs to lose to get to my lightest which was back in June last year but the way i am going right now, i am fairly confident i can do it.

28 days until my holiday. Bring. It. On.

A Minor Birthday Blip

I hit a tiny stumbling block this weekend on the diet... well, when i say tiny, it was pretty catastrophic.

Last Thursday my brother and sister had their 26th birthday so there was lots of celebrating. I spent all week being good, eating the right things and exercising as normal, but the end of the week kind of went slightly belly up.

We went out for a meal on Thursday night with the family and the table wasn't booked until 8.30pm. For lunch that day, i only had a bowl of Weight Watchers soup because i knew that i would go over my points in the evening, but in hindsight, i should have had a bigger lunch because by 9.00pm when the food still hadn't shown up, i was literally starving. I ended up having a massive bowl of minestrone soup, followed by a large portion of chicken pasta with garlic bread and then felt obliged to have a small slice of birthday cake. I didn't go massively over my points but because we ate so late, i could feel it getting comfortable on my stomach and even today, i can still feel it there. Grr.

Anyway, i got straight back on the wagon only to fall off it again on Saturday! I was going out on Saturday night for my birthday and also for my brother's and sister's so it was a joint affair and i knew it was going to get messy. I went swimming in the morning to try and limit the damage that i was going to do later in the day, i hope it helped. So, i went out in the evening and i hit the alcohol in style. Approximately 4 jagerbombs, 2 apple sourz and about 10 malibu and diet cokes later, i was sat at home, horrendously drunk, eating toast. My only saving grace was that i danced loads and didn't have the burger afterwards. Surely that must count for something?!

Yesterday, even though i was horrendously hungover and badly wanted to stodge to soak everything up, i was super good, only had tomatoes on toast for breakfast and roast lamb for lunch with no snacking. I also somehow managed to do 100 sit-ups because i had forgotten to do my 50 in the morning.

I have weigh in tonight at Weight Watchers and i am dreading it. I have really been focused and good on the diet in recent weeks and while i know that i will have put a bit of weight on, i just pray that it isn't too much.

Exercise

As well as the healthy eating, my new obsession is exercise.

Every day I do 50 sit-ups in the morning and 50 sit-ups in the evening.

Every night after work, I walk 3.5 miles to the station.

I go swimming twice a week for 1 hour.

And my new favourite is skipping, but it is an absolute killer. I can only manage 10 minutes of this and i am in agony the next day, but as they say, no pain no gain!

I'm not sure how long this is going to last but at the moment I am enjoying it so it's looking good for my bikini body this year. Ahem.

Still Going Strong!

So it's been nearly 2 weeks since i decided to hunt down my focus and get it back and it's still here with me!

Last week when i went to Weight Watchers, i had lost 1lb so i was chuffed with that and it helped me on my way.

This past week, i have definitely got my Weight Watchers mojo back. I am feeling enthusiastic about it, i am eating really healthily and doing lots of exercise. The fact that i have booked to go back to Turkey in April has nothing to do with it. Honest.

Anyway, i went to the dreaded weigh in last night and i have lost 3.5lbs and i am over the moon with that. All the hard work last week has paid off!

This week is going to be a test... i have my brother and sister's birthday where we will go out for a meal and then we are going out for joint celebrations for my birthday as well which is next week on Saturday night. I honestly want to try and not drink too much and not have the deliciously revolting burger on the way home, but i am not hopeful.

Still, the focus is there and i am well and truly back on the wagon so stranger things have happened.

2010 - Lets Get Thin Again!

Well, well, well, it's been a while hasn't it? Naughty girl!

So, how have i been doing? Not that great to be fair. Shame! I went back to Weight Watchers after Christmas and after all my holidays and had managed to put a whopping great 16lbs on. Not impressed but at least i went back.

Things have been a little tough for me recently - my grandad died which was a massive blow to me and things at work aren't great so to say that my diet was at the top of my priorities was just a big fat lie!

Ive struggled to get focused on Weight Watchers since about September last year so it's no surprise that weight has gone back on but it's not going to last. I did some hardcore dieting in January because i went back to Turkey in February but unfortunately, i literally starved myself on some days so as soon as i started eating again, the weight went back on. I don't know why i bothered either because i don't like myself in any of the pictures!

So, times are changing i am happy to say! I feel more focused on Weight Watchers than i have in months and it feels great. I don't feel any real desire to cheat and when i get a craving, i give in. The biggest change has been the amount of exercise i am doing. My daily workout is 50 sit-ups in the morning, a 3 1/2 mile walk to the station, 10 minutes of skipping and then another 50 sit-ups before bed plus an hours swim twice a week. It hurts, it really hurts but it will be worth it! Ive decided that even though i am back on Weight Watchers properly, i am happy with my general weight and its all about toning up now so ill watch what i eat but exercise is the most important thing.

Oh and by the way, i have another holiday in 49 days so if that's not an incentive, i don't know what is! ;)